Articles for GroundUp Staff

2023 in Photos: From the high of winning the World Cup to a devastating inner city fire

A photo of Thabo Bester, officially dead in a prison fire, shopping in Sandton became the story of the year

South Africa: key statistics ahead of the 2024 elections

Here is how we’re doing on unemployment, murder, housing, life-expectancy and social grants

Here are the 2023 Vodacom journalism award winners

Journalist of the Year award shared by News24 and GroundUp

This is where people are occupying Metrorail’s Central Line in Cape Town

There are about 4,000 households occupying the line between Nyanga and Philippi, according to the Housing Development Agency

Protests in Cape Town in solidarity with Palestinians

Dean of St Georges Cathedral calls for peace vigil

Bester and Magudumana threaten court action to stop book release

Thabo Bester wants to “avoid being prosecuted by and in the media”, according to his lawyers

Economists warn against “chaotic budget cuts”

We’re not facing an immediate fiscal crisis, says Institute for Economic Justice

Hamba Kahle Mkhuseli Sizani

29 March 1981 to 12 September 2023

Government admits Thabo Bester has escaped

Department of Correctional Services statement confirms findings of GroundUp’s investigations

The public sector trade unions’ dispute and strike: Here are the facts

NEHAWU says strike action is growing

Patients turned away from some hospitals as public sector wage strike continues

Loadshedding: here are your options

The GroundUp roundup: a year in photos

GroundUp’s Raymond Joseph wins journalist of the year award for exposing Lottery corruption

For years he has been tenaciously reporting on shenanigans at the National Lotteries Commission

Yoliswa Dwane, co-founder of Equal Education, has died

Under her leadership the organisation ran widely acclaimed campaigns to improve school infrastructure and install libraries in township schools

Zimbabweans trying to leave SA not being turned back: Home Affairs explains

The department says people without valid documents are being referred to documentation counters but choose not to go